Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listener Laura writes in, I lose stuff. I forget where I keep things or put them after I've used them.

I might forget my cell phone on the table or in the coffee shop, I once lost my wallet and found it a day later

in my car. Same applies to keys, purses, flash drives, etc. Any advice? Some of us are absent-minded.

We lose stuff. We forget where we keep it. We forget where we leave it. We leave our cell phones

in the coffee shop, our wallet in the car, our glasses on the bureau, and in my case, I sometimes run around looking for my keys with my right hand, not noticing I'm

holding them in my left. There's a reason the neighborhood kids weren't allowed to play

with me growing up. I try to help myself, remember? I always think, this time, I'll put my keys

someplace special, so I'm sure to remember.

Of course, someplace special is different every time. So this strategy just becomes a wonderful

way to lose things that I care the most about keeping. Next time you visit a zoo, look around.

You know what you'll never find? You'll never find an elephant's wallet left on the

concession stand cash register. Why? It's because elephants never forget. They can't, or else they

wouldn't be able to find the nuts they stored up for the winter. We aren't so lucky, but we can

learn a lot about memory from elephants. Make a place for everything.

Elephants are creatures of habit.

Many live in small artificial zoo enclosures

without a lot of storage space.

Most even have to share a closet,

so they're meticulous about giving everything a place,

and I mean everything.

They have a little grassy nook right by the entrance where their wallet,

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